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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Shoemaker
Leather
Intense
Pleasure
Words

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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
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I have no technical psychological interest it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets I shall live long.
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His heart some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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